Of speaker phones and dogs (the year of)

I just got off the phone with my parents and Caleb. It was great talking to them and hearing about how they are not doing much for Chinese New Year. And how NOBODY visited them! Haha. Oh well. I'm not very much better off here in snowy Minnesota. Yes, it is snowing. *Glances out the window* No, actually, I think it's stopped. But I think it'll be pretty tomorrow at least.

Chinese New Year has been pretty uneventful, though I try to make it. By wearing my new shirt, telling my a cappella group to come to rehearsal dressed in red (only one guy did. but that's because he had worn the shirt the day before), wishing my very white and very midwestern church people "Happy Chinese New Year" (their response? "Oh is that what today is?" - oh dear haha), and shouting "Xin nian kuai le" randomly.

But anyway. Wow, tangent. Funny thing happened. I was talking to my family via speakerphone (on their end). They were all there - just finished steamboat lunch. And Niki (my dog - not my grandma ;) ) was there too. And so I started calling out "Niki! Come here. Come here girl". And she got so excited and started to wag her tail and got up to look for me. My parents were so excited. Then I said "Sit, girl, sit". And she sat! Haha. "Niki, hand, give me your hand". And she sat there and raised her paw!! hHahaha. Oh I miss my dog so much.

And it's the year of the dog. How fitting. Who let the dogs out? Woof woof woof woof woof!